Fence.



No. 658,00l.

Patented Sept. l8, I900.

E. E. BATEMAN.

F E N C E (Application filed June 7, 1900.)

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. EUGENE E. BATEMAN, OF MARQUEZ, TEXAS.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,001, datedSeptember 18, 1900.

7 A li ti fil d June 7, 1900. Serial No. 19,391. (No model.)

To all' whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE E. BATEMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Marquez, in the county of Leon and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new'and useful improvements in fences, andespecially toa wire fence made, preferably, of plain strands of wirehorizontally disposed and drawn toward one another by means of shortpieces of wire which are twisted about the horizontal wires, the ends ofthe fastening-pieces projecting into the spaces between the wiresforming barbs, said barbed ends extending, preferably, into the widestportions of the spaces between the wires, thus forming with a minimumamount of wire a fence which is substantial in character and ofiering are sistance to a passage through the spaces .between the wires, thebarbed ends of theconnecting-wires being disposed in the plane of thefence and not projecting laterally.

To these ends and to such others as theinvention may pertain the sameconsists, further, in the novel construction and arrangement of parts,as will be hereinafter more fully described and then specificallydefined in the appended claim.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form part of thisapplication, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of' one section of myimproved fence; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of one of theconnecting-Wires, the ends of which form barbs and project toward eachother and within the spaces between the longitudinal wires of the fence.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A Adesignate the'horizontally-disposed wires of myimproved fence, which aredrawn toward each other at intervals by means of wires B. These shortwires B are twisted, one about each Wire A, after the latter are drawn asufficient distance to ward each other, and the ends of each wire B,which are vertically disposed, project into the widest portions of thespaces between the wires, thus offering a resistance to the passage ofan objectthrough the large portion of said spaces. These wires B aredisposed. in the plane of the fence, as Well as the barbed ends, and donot project laterally from the 7 sides of the same.

Suitable selvage-wiresD and D are strung from post to post as the upperand lower margins of the fence, and tot-he upper-wire D the uppermost ofthe wires A is adapted .to be fastened by means of wires-B, which mayhave barbs projecting, if desired, above saidwire D, and the lowermostofthe wires A is fastened to the wireD in a similar manner,

as will be readily understood.

From the foregoing it willlbe readily seen.

that by my improved fence I. utilize a less uantit Y of wire than isnecessar' i'n'th'e manufacture of a fence in which'the longitu.-.

' dinal wires are brought together, forming diamond-shaped spaces withtruncated ends, and I by use of the connecting-wires having'barbed endswhich project into the spaces the mesh I V to my improved fence ispractically the same as in a fence constructed with diamondshaped spacesbetween the wires.

Having thus described my'invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Let.- ters Patent, is

A barbed-wire fence comprising in combination with the top and bottomwires,'the

intermediate longitudinal wires secured in pairs to a post, thedistances between said pairs increasing from the bottom tothe top wire,said Wires at the post ,andprojecting beyond the edge thereof a shortdistance being parallel to one another, short alternatelyarrangedconuecting-wirestwisted once about a wire of each pair and stretchingthe intermediate wires in opposite directions in a vertical plane, theends of said short wires be-. ing vertically disposed in alinementwithone another, the spaces between the barbed points increasing from thebottom to the top of the fence, the spaces, between the adjacent wiresof the various pairs, at their points of connection with the short barbwires, being equal, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE E. BATEMAN. Witnesses:

G. R. JOHNSON, T. R. RoWLY.

